Chicago
It all started with the original move to Chicago. My former roommate and I were looking for places in the pouring-down rain when we stumbled into a hotel looking for Wabash Ave."Which way is Wah-bahsh?"
"Wah-bahsh? What? Oooh, Wah-bash! you guys aren't from around here are you?"
Little Rock
In Little Rock, Arkansas, one of the biggest roads you'll encounter is Cantrell Rd. It's not pronounced how certain Steve's might expect, either."So I just take Can-trell all the way to Rodney Par-ham?"
"First, it's Cantrll...and second, it's Rodney Parm"
Toronto
In Toronto, the road that divides the city into east and west is Yonge St. Naturally, this went just as well.
Yonge St., NYC by Loozrboy on flickr
"Are we at Yong-gey Street yet?"
"I don't think that's how you say it, Steven. I think it's just Yong."
... *later, while talking to someone who knows"
"So you'll want to take Eglinton all the way down to Young and turn right."
We get it right, eventually.
note that's the only licensed picture I could find, and it was from a movie shoot where they were pretending Toronto was New York.
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